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A hacking group called stegan0gram has dealt a serious blow to surveillance camera company Flock Safety, extracting more than twenty-seven thousand video clips and one point six million images from a stolen device — directly contradicting the company's claims that its cameras were protected by on-device encryption. The breach raises hard questions about how much trust we place in the security assurances of the companies building our surveillance infrastructure.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a striking new survey finds that nearly sixty percent of UK businesses cite security and privacy as major barriers to adopting AI tools. More than half say they want greater sovereignty over their sensitive data, and nearly a third are actively reconsidering how and where that data travels. It's a sign that enterprise confidence in AI is conditional, not guaranteed.
And in gaming, ArenaNet has confirmed that Guild Wars three will be set one thousand years before the events of its predecessors, in the ancient land of Orr. Studio head Colin Johanson says the prequel setting is designed to reward longtime fans who care deeply about the lore, while giving newcomers a clean entry point into the franchise — a balancing act that every long-running series eventually has to face.
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